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gh-lfneu28on The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it

Except that Angus Maddison's estimates are a wild speculation based on hand-waved assumptions and 'extrapolated' data.

gh-lfneu28on The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it

"generally"

gh-lfneu28on Twitter Acquires Magic Pony

Magic Pony Technology, you say?

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal

gh-lfneu28on In poor neighborhoods, McDonald’s have become de-facto community centers

> A is trying to write comments on HN

Huh? The topic was about people doing hard work. Writing comments is easy.

gh-lfneu28on In poor neighborhoods, McDonald’s have become de-facto community centers

> they're free from is being forced to listen to it

That's what I've called 'free from being critisized' so yeah. Not sure what you mean by "No one is free from criticism". If you refer to rights of other people to express their critical opinion - sure, let them run their mouths in their own space.

The problems begin (as usual) when A is being forced to listen to B's opinions either because A cannot move away or because Bs are too numerous. That's where I think that B should have to shut up. "Your freedom to fo X ends etc etc". Participating in hard work is an aggravating factor here, meaning B should have to shut the f up right now or be forcefully removed.

In case of doubt just imaging an idiot shouting their mouth at the working surgeon.

gh-lfneu28on In poor neighborhoods, McDonald’s have become de-facto community centers

Actually everyone should be free from being criticized, except for the people with the authority to do so. That goes double for people doing hard work and triple for people doing work that every joe shmoe on the internet thinks himself an expert on.

In other words, my spouse can criticize my parenting everyone else can go frack themselves. Full stop.

gh-lfneu28on In poor neighborhoods, McDonald’s have become de-facto community centers

They didn't draw any comparisons though.

gh-lfneu28on In poor neighborhoods, McDonald’s have become de-facto community centers

Sad to see you downvoted for expressing a great American freedom, voting with your dollars.

gh-lfneu28on There Have Probably Been Aliens

Would be far less confusing if you'd just written "~12km" and "~11km". The meters add little to the point you're trying to make.

gh-lfneu28on Fandom Is Broken

And WW2 started as a campaign to kill Franz Ferdinand.

gh-lfneu28on Peter Thiel's dangerous blueprint for perverting philanthropy

From the article: "Historically, news publications have treated certain subjects very carefully: if you’re rich and [...] litigious, then [...] organizations will have lawyers do a careful review of anything they write about you [...]"

Well, if they would now have to "do a careful review" of everything they write for the fear of vengeful billionaire going after them, nobody would shed a tear.

But obviously that wont be a solution.

gh-lfneu28on Rich Programmer Food (2007)

This post is from 2007. Yegge is not back :( OP or mods, add (2007) to the title svp.

gh-lfneu28on Top developers can have a life outside coding

No, because the author specifically singled out a sex and a race in a sweeping generalization in negative context with no reasoning -- we cast her as sexist and racist. But on the second part I agree - we do need more people like Wintamute in society.

gh-lfneu28on Hacker Releases a How-To Video Targeting Police

Amazing OC. Easy to follow, great ost, really punches in the fragility of the modern web.

gh-lfneu28on School Is to Submit

[Citation needed] - watch Empire of Dust ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0C4_88ub_M )

gh-lfneu28on Microsoft Announces Converter for Bringing Win32 Apps to the Windows Store

Yeah, they dropped that .net thing in less than that .. oh wait

gh-lfneu28on Canvas: Notes for teams of nerds

I concur, it feels design-y in the bad sense and makes me want to close the page asap.

gh-lfneu28on AT&T sues Louisville to stop Google Fiber from using its utility poles

> In 15 years when the search engine have failed to evolve because Google is a monopoly and has no incentive to keep improving it

- Google improves all the time (source: I have access to the search quality measurements)

- In all major countries they have someone trying to catch up to them and take their place

- In some major countries they are not even in the lead

Things can change in 15 years by the trends are not pointing downwards currently.